Sentences with phrase «much economic devastation»

«It is up for Parliament to decide... whether or not the government should be allowed to explain it is simply too late for Kyoto to be complied with and would cause too much economic devastation,» counsel said but stated that Ottawa has determined the Act is simply impossible to meet.

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But after noting the diligence and quick work of the city leadership in gathering personal accounts from the event and storing newspaper articles from papers around the country whose reporters covered the devastation, the logical conclusion in the face of so much stored up evidence is that the city's political and economic leadership attempted to downplay the horror of the event.

The scale of that economic devastation is hard to comprehend, but you can start by imagining what the world would look like today with an economy half as big, which would produce only half as much value, generating only half as much to offer the workers of the world.